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Times like this will always be difficult Personally when eating out I will go course by course as it arrives that way it’s easier to judge how many carbs you thing will be on the plate as you never know the plate size until it arrives And if I’m still high a couple of hours after eating I...

If you are very low, as in hypo then that would suggest your basal insulin in slightly to high Now if your bg is above 4 that’s not very low. So depending in the bolts insulin you are taking would determine when to take it Humalog and novorapid take about 12 to 15 minutes to start working and...

Don’t bother expecting it…. I was told ‘any time now’ when I was given the pump 4 years ago and it never arrived It will arrive when it arrives - if ever I think it’s more of an approval issue in the UK along with the likes of omnipod only being able to use a pdm and not a phone in the UK

The rules are you have to tell them if the control you have can cause hypos Performing can not gliclazide can

The main reason they want control of your main bg level with lantus is there is less risk of hypos Also as lantus has a slower absorption rate you won’t get the fast fall fast rise So the general idea is that the lantus is increased to a level that your bg stays stable over extended periods...

I guess everyone could say they are pre-diabetic unless diagnosed Pre meaning before.. and everyone is before if they don’t have… That being said. At risk and prediabetic are 2 ways of saying the same thing.. ie you are in a position that if you don’t take control now, you will probably become...

what I found best actually for this soft of longer term travel type needs is a woman's makeup case, sort of medium camera bag size.. as it had lots of pockets of different sizes and plenty of space for a few weeks travel

now this is where it gets a little more complicated.. some of your basal your are taking, may not actually be basal as such, it may be compensation for bad boluses.. I think on a pump its more important to see what the total daily dose is even on smart guard, some of the correction doses...

Without smartguard that’s exactly what it is.. and to make things worse needs continuously change

It’s that that really helps me.. but as I say basal rate is what you need to play with higher basal means more insulin so you just need to find how much you need to help keep control

Are you not on smart guard mine just keeps correcting and keeps it there The basal is what needs adjusting I actually needed 6u an hour where my daytime is only about 1.2u

48 is still higher than it should be and the risk of stopping metformin is it may increase slightly again However you say you argue about wanting to stop.. you do realise they can’t force you to take any form of medication the choice is yours So you could choose to stop and see if your diet...

I did with the tandem, the trouble is the lack of activity means the basal rate needed to be much higher for the time period I’ve since moved to the Medtronic pump and that does a much better job

Things to remember.. 1 is reading blood one is not As the libre is reading fluid not blood it responder slower by 10 to 20 mins so at times where bg is changing the can differ Also these are not lan grade there is a margin of error typically within about 20% If one is 20% low the other 20%...

It’s the same tests they run for t1 C-peptide and gad antibodies However in the early stages cpep can be in the normal range and you may not have the gad antibodies so will be classed t2 anyway It’s only as time passes and normal t2 treatments stop working

More tests don’t always work…. I had more tests throughout the 10 years and still told I was t2 Not everyone is the same and not everyone has gad antibodies etc…. So there will always be misdiagnosis

Dexcom website shows what phones are compatible In the UK the onnipod is not phone controlled, but in other countries where it is there will be a compatibility list on their site

The issue is that the dexcom app only works with certain android devices The do have a list on their website choose on of the tested phones and it will work Now there are ways to get the dexcom app to work on any android phone but you need to be a little more tech savvy

No pump is perfect even the tandem where you can type the value you want had issues that would slow things down You do have the option of not entering anything and letting the pump sort it out does seem to work quite well for smaller meals

It won’t be exclusive to the fact it’s a tubes pump If you contact tandem and discuss it with them they may have alternative cannulas to try in the same way there is needles